Customer Ratings & Reviews

Quiet and fast, reliable. I've used Seagate drives for decades.

Works exactly as intended, easy to install, easy to get running

Good i like is good i buy other son is the bets s

Great hard Drive for NAS. Quiet and fast. Easy to setup and use with Synology NAS

It is working great with Synology Nas the speed is fine.

I would not recommend. I got two of these and neither would initialize or format. Returned.

Don't often review but had a terrible experience that may help others. One of the two drives purchased in mid January crashed in early May after very little use. Disconcerting. Arranged RMA. RMA'd replacement was not recognized by my NAS, by Windows, or by Linux. In two Support cases involving many calls, emails, and screenshots and many direct requests to obtain another RMA, I *never* received a 2nd RMA from Seagate. It seems I hit some quota by the first RMA and met incredible resistance in obtaining a 2nd RMA for the drive THAT FAILED TO WORK that replaced a basically new crashed drive. I've given up. The 2nd dead drive is now a doorstep and have since ordered Western Digital drives. I have never encountered such a terrible customer experience.

If you're buying hard drives for use in a Network Attached Storage Device, you should avoid drives that use Shingled Magnetic Recording (or SMR) like the plague. Rebuilding the drive array with SMR drives can take SEVERAL DAYS instead of hours. Google "SMR drive controversy" to come up to speed. Seagate is on the record as publicly stating that none of their Ironwolf or Ironwolf Pro drives use SMR. Other manufacturer's "Red" drives use SMR technology, so you'll pay more to get Conventional Magnetic Recording in their "Plus" or "Pro" models. What's worse is that different versions of CMR or SMR drives can vary only by a single letter in the model number. These changes were hidden from the public until they were exposed in April 2020. SMR may be fine for home use, but for NAS it's a NO GO.

Not really sure what was up with, purchased it to use in an external docking bay for storage and I had the hardest time just trying to use it. It was very slow when connected, and often flat out crashed file explorer when I just tried to open it on multiple occasions! File explorer! Like the most basic program you can open on the computer. Then when I was able to have file explorer run, I tired to transfer some files and it would freeze during the transfer, then crash file explorer again after a few tests to figure out what was going on. I exchanged it for an SSD which performs absolutely hilariously better, it so it wasn't the docking bay I am using. Was really excited but was left disappointed.